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29-738: The lighthouse was built in 1874 with lumber from California redwoods. It was designed by Paul J. Pelz who also designed Point Fermin's sister stations, East Brother Island Light in Richmond, California , Mare Island Light , in Carquinez Strait , California (demolished in the 1930s), Point Hueneme Light in California (replaced in 1940), Hereford Inlet Light in North Wildwood, New Jersey, and Point Adams Light in Washington State (burned down by

58-722: A display in the restored lighthouse museum from the real estate office of Louis Busch in Malibu, California, where it had been on display. In June 2011, the General Services Administration made the Point Fermin Light (along with 11 others) available at no cost to public organizations willing to preserve them. The restored site was open to the public as the Point Fermin Lighthouse Historic Site and Museum. The Point Fermin lighthouse has featured as

87-485: A filming location in several television series productions. From 1977 to 1978, in four television films and the television series of Man from Atlantis , the lighthouse was used to represent the fictional 'The Foundation for Oceanic Research' headquarters building for the TV series. In 1979, Point Fermin and the lighthouse featured in the first-season episode of the television series Hart to Hart , in "Hit Jennifer Hart". In 1986,

116-565: A mind and a hand that was shaped, through contact with Henri Labrouste , by the French Beaux-Arts tradition. Lienau's career provides a dramatic illustration of the contributions made by the professionally trained European architect to American architecture. His chief importance to American architecture of the period from 1850 to the mid-1980s lies not in his use of the Second Empire mode per se , nor in his general eclecticism, but in

145-507: A point of view more international than theirs—a rarity in an age of ardent nationalism. Thus, a fusion of traditions enabled him to adapt quickly to life in America and to deal successfully with the demands of an increasingly eclectic age. Another point that should be stressed, since it has long been ignored: It was Lienau, not Richard Morris Hunt , who was the first to bring to the United States

174-657: The Arlington Memorial Bridge which was eventually built in the 1930s. In 1898, at the request of socialite Mary Foote Henderson , he proposed designs for a new Executive Mansion to replace the White House on what is now Meridian Hill Park . Pelz was a prominent participant in the 1900 Convention of the American Institute of Architects and presented a plan there for the remodeling of the National Mall which

203-600: The Library of Congress project alone, Pelz provided alternative designs in styles that included Romanesque, 13th-Century Gothic, Victorian Gothic, Italian Renaissance, French Renaissance, German Renaissance, and French Classical. Detlef Lienau Detlef Lienau (17 February 1818 – 29 August 1887) was a German architect born in Holstein . He is credited with having introduced the French style to American building construction, notably

232-859: The National Register of Historic Places . 1849—Michael Lienau cottage; 44 Jersey Avenue; Jersey City, NJ. 1852—Beach Cliffe; Kane Villa; Bath Road; Newport, RI. 1852— Francis Cottenet Villa ( Nuits ) ; Hudson Road and Clifton Place; Ardsley-on-Hudson, NY. 1852—Hart M. Shiff House; Fifth Avenue at 10th Street; New York, NY. 1853— Grace Church Van Vorst ; Erie Avenue and Second Street; Jersey City, NJ 1854—Oakwood; 50 Narragansett Avenue; Newport, RI. 1859— William C. Schermerhorn House; 49 West 23rd Street; New York, NY. 1862—F.O. Matthiessen & Weichers sugar refinery; South Street; Jersey City, NJ. 1864—First National Bank; 1 Exchange Place; Jersey City, NJ. 1865—New York Life & Trust Company; 52 Wall Street; New York, NY. 1868— Elm Park (now known as

261-449: The mansard roof and all its decorative flourishes. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris , he designed virtually every type of Victorian structure—cottages, mansions, townhouses , apartment houses, hotels, tenements, banks, stores, churches, schools, libraries, offices, factories, railroad stations, and a museum. Lienau was recognized by clients and colleagues alike as one of the most creative and technically proficient architects of

290-2007: The "Lockwood-Mathews Mansion"), 295 West Avenue; Norwalk, Connecticut . 1868—New York Sugar Refining Company; Washington and Essex Streets; Jersey City, NJ. 1868—L. Marcotte factory and warehouse; 160-164 West 32nd Street; New York, NY. 1869— Edmund Schermerhorn House; 45-47 West 23rd Street; New York, NY. 1870—Mrs. Rebecca Jones Block; Fifth Avenue between 55th and 56th Street; New York, NY. 1871—American Jockey Club; Madison Avenue at 27th Street; New York, NY. 1871—Henry A. Booraem Block; Second Street; Jersey City, NJ. 1871—Schermerhorn Apartments; 2131-2137 Third Avenue; New York, NY. 1872—Grosvenor House Hotel; Fifth Avenue at 10th Street; New York, NY. 1872—Michael Lienau Villa (Schloss Düneck); Moorrege , Germany. 1873—Matthew Wilks Residence (Cruickston Park); Blair, ON, Canada. 1874—DeLancey Kane Estate loft building; 676 Broadway; New York, NY. 1875— Edward Bech Villa outbuildings (Rosenlund, now Marist College ) ; Poughkeepsie, NY . 1875— New Brunswick Theological Seminary (Sage Library); 17 Seminary Place; New Brunswick, NJ. 1876— W. B. Hodgson Hall ; 501 Whitaker Street; Savannah, GA. 1879—George Mosle townhouse; 5 West 51st Street ; New York, NY. 1880—Walter H. Lewis Cottage (Anglesea); Ochre Point; Newport, RI. 1881—William C. Schermerhorn store and loft building; 116-118 East 14th Street; New York, NY. 1881—Barron Loft Building; 129-131 Greene Street; New York, NY. 1882—Daniel Parish Estate office building; 67 Wall Street; New York, NY. 1883—Mrs. Mary M. Williams Cottage; 1135 Hamilton Street; Somerset, NJ. See: Tulipwood (Somerset, New Jersey) 1883—Daniel Parish store and loft building; 860 Broadway; New York, NY. 1884—Mrs. Mary M. Williams Row; 37-47 West 82nd Street; New York, NY. 1886—Restoration of Telfair family mansion as Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences 1887—Lienau-Williams Row; 48–54 West 82nd Street; New York, NY. Ellen Weill Kramer. The Domestic Architecture of Detlef Lienau,

319-698: The Avery Library of Architecture and Fine Arts at Columbia University. Lienau was one of a relatively small group of trained architects, of whom the majority were fairly recent arrivals from Great Britain and the continent. All brought with them to the New World the traditions of the Old, but Lienau differed from his colleagues in one important respect: Molded by his early Danish and North German environment , and by years of study in various German art centers and in Paris, Lienau had

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348-569: The Library of Congress as Smithmeyer was dismissed; Pelz in turn was dismissed in 1892 and succeeded by Edward Pearce Casey . Pelz had the main role in the design of the building and the execution of its exterior, while Smithmeyer was instrumental in securing the commission and Casey supervised most of the interior finishings. Pelz's offices were in the Corcoran Building on 15th and F Street NW, which hosted several prominent architecture firms, now

377-497: The Lighthouse Service in 1912), all in essentially the same style. In 1941, the light was extinguished due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor . There was fear that the light would serve as a beacon for enemy planes and ships. The original fourth order Fresnel lens was removed in 1942. The lighthouse was saved from demolition in 1972 and added to the National Register of Historic Places . The light fell into disuse and disrepair and

406-590: The classical orientation of his entire practice. His work represents a continuing current of conservatism in American architecture, which for a time was submerged beneath the more dominant picturesque modes of the period, the High Victorian Gothic and the Second Empire—the latter quite as anti-classical in its later style phase as the former. He served as a bridge between the classical traditions of design of

435-538: The colleges of St. Elizabeth and Holy Spirit. In 1858, Paul Pelz joined his father in New York City , and served there as apprentice to architect Detlef Lienau . In 1864, he was employed as chief draftsman by Jewish architect Henry Fernbach, who designed the Central Synagogue in New York City . In 1866, Pelz became a member of the American Institute of Architects . In 1867, he moved to Washington, D.C. , and

464-649: The eldest son, J. August, died young. His great-great-great-granddaughter is Jane Lienau, a prestigious teacher of classics at Brunswick High School . J. August followed in his father's footsteps and became an architect, designing mostly residential structures after taking over his father's practice in 1887. He later formed a partnership with Thomas Nash, which lasted through the late 1920s. After Catherine's death in 1861, Lienau married Harriet Jane Wreaks in 1866 and they had two children: Eleanor F. and Jacob Henry. In 1935, J. Henry donated about 800 of his father's professional drawings, photographs and other original documents to

493-400: The lantern room and gallery were removed. The site was refurbished in 1974 including a new lantern room and gallery were built by local preservationists in 1974. A wood replica lantern was also installed. The original Fresnel lens from the lighthouse, removed in the 1940s, had been missing for decades. After being found and positively identified, on November 13, 2006, the lens was relocated to

522-571: The lighthouse appeared in a second-season episode of Amazing Stories , in "Magic Saturday". In 1988, the lighthouse was featured in the fifth-season episode of Murder, She Wrote , in 'Mr. Penroy's Vacation'. The lighthouse also featured in two episodes of MacGyver : "Flames End" and "D.O.A.: MacGyver". In 1999, the lighthouse was featured as the Griffin residence in Duwayne Dunham 's 1999 made-for-television film The Thirteenth Year . In 2007,

551-616: The lighthouse is featured in the Huell Howser "Visiting" television series, in the documentary episode 'Pt. Fermin Lighthouse Lens' in the interview series 'Visiting... with Huell Howser . The lighthouse heavily inspired the El Gordo Lighthouse, which appears in the 2013 videogame Grand Theft Auto V . Paul J. Pelz Paul Johannes Pelz (18 November 1841 – 30 March 1918) was a German-American architect, best known as

580-714: The main architect of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Pelz was born November 18, 1841, in Seitendorf (now Poniatów), in Waldenburg , Silesia , now part of Poland . His father, Eduard Pelz, was elected as a representative of Silesia to the Frankfurt Parliament in 1848. Subsequent political repression led him to emigrate to the U.S. in 1851 while the rest of the family temporarily stayed in Breslau , where Paul studied at

609-477: The period, and was one of the 29 founding members of the American Institute of Architects . Lienau was born in an area of Denmark that later became part of Germany. He immigrated to the United States in 1848 and on May 11, 1853, he married Catherine Van Giesen Booraem. It was his first marriage and her second. Lienau and Catherine had five children: Jacob August Lienau (1854–1906), Detlef Lienau II, Catherine Cornelia Lienau, Lucy Lienau, and Louise Lienau. All but

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638-828: The picturesque High Victorian Gothic of the late ’60s and early ’70s), and finally echoes of the Queen Anne and of the Colonial Revival —all found expression in Lienau’s work. Lienau died in New York City. His drawings and papers are held in the Department of Drawings & Archives at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University in New York City. Some of Lienau’s most important commissions (by completion date of their first phase). Those in boldface are on

667-547: The second quarter of the 19th century and their re-emergence in the 1880s of the movement led in New York by the firm of McKim, Mead & White . Among the architects Lienau is said to have influenced are Henry Janeway Hardenbergh and Paul Johannes Pelz , both of whom worked in Lienau's office-workshop. According to Hardenbergh, Lienau never had more than six men in his office, so he could really devote some time to them. Thus, through

696-577: The site of the Hotel W near the US Treasury Building . He designed churches, public buildings, private houses and commercial buildings, and also participated in key debates of the time on Washington's urban design . In 1887, while still in partnership with Smithmeyer, he proposed an exuberant neo-medieval design for a new memorial bridge across the Potomac in honor of Ulysses S. Grant , a predecessor plan to

725-478: The work of his many pupils, Lienau's influence continued down through the early years of the 20th century. From simple cottages to great mansions, Lienau used many modes to express his own ideas and the wishes of his clients in what he considered to be their most appropriate form. The Chalet and Stick style of the early cottages, the Italian Villa , the monumental French Renaissance tradition (all reflections of

754-582: Was a key source of the McMillan Plan the following year. Pelz's first wife, Louise Dorothea Kipp, died in 1894. In 1895, he remarried with Mary Eastbourne (Ritter) Meem (1849–1914). On 30 March 1918, he died in Washington, D.C. He is buried together with his second wife in Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Like other architects of his time, Pelz mastered a range of architectural styles and

783-602: Was engaged as a civil engineer for the United States Lighthouse Board , where from 1872 to 1877 he served as chief draftsman. His work won a prize for the Lighthouse Board at the 1873 Universal Exhibition in Vienna . In 1873, Pelz and John L. Smithmeyer , another Washington, D.C.-based architect, together won the competition for the architectural plans for the Library of Congress . Their winning design proposal

812-400: Was partly based on notes Pelz had taken on prominent public libraries when he traveled to Europe to collect the prize in Vienna. In the ensuing years Pelz also partnered with Smithmeyer on other projects. The difficulties experienced on the Library of Congress project, with many delays for congressional dithering, eventually strained their collaboration. In 1888 Pelz became the lead architect for

841-644: Was willing to switch across them depending on program and client's taste. His designs included Romanesque Revival (Carnegie Library of Allegheny, McGill Building, Memorial Bridge project), Gothic Revival (Antietam Cemetery gatehouse, Hot Springs Hospital, Grace Reformed Church), a hodgepodge of Neo-Medieval styles at Georgetown University 's Healy Hall , French Renaissance (Miller House), Neo-Georgian (Elkins Mansion), American Federal (University of Virginia), Stick Style (several lighthouses, US Soldiers' Home Library), and Beaux-Arts (Library of Congress, Foraker Mansion, Meridian Hill Executive Mansion project). For

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